Vision is not an image fully formed. Vision is knowing where to look without necessarily knowing what to look for. Vision is the ability to see the trail of breadcrumbs, and the strength and conviction necessary to follow that trail despite not knowing where it leads.
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Focus and Simplicity
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Science
There is nothing like “basic science” and “applied science”. There is only science and its application.
– Louis Pasteur
Work Worth Doing
Far and away the best prize that life offers is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.
…a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar.
The New York Herald (May 19 1860) describing Abraham Lincoln
Doing The Impossible
Making The Poor Rich
Tactics and Strategy
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
– Savielly Tartakower